desperately

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As their characters, Conforti, Blanchard and Ardies, deftly carve out discrete personalities beneath their plum-colored homogeneity, each playing a role that is, in turn, playing a role while also remaining desperately human.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Wrack said: "We have a masculinity crisis brewing in our schools. Teachers desperately need increased support to deal with this new frontier of behaviour management."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

"We desperately need more of these land-to-ocean connection studies if we're to fully grapple with the problem of global warming and the effects it will have on coastal ecosystems."

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

“AI companies are desperately in need of training data and what Mercor is doing demonstrates the lengths they will go to pay for it,” he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He whirled around and began pedaling back toward the library just as desperately as he’d been pedaling away from it.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix